[Gdal-dev] shaded relief utility

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:03:38PM +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote:
> On Monday 12 December 2005 23:32, Brent Fraser wrote:
> > Paul, Matt,
> >
> >   And it compiled ok on Windows.  I justed editted the makefile.vc file to
> > include hillshade.exe.  I haven't actually tried it yet.
> >
> >   Like Paul,  I'm actually interested in shading an image file based on a
> > DEM (if that's what you meant, Paul)
> >
> > Brent
> 
> No, I meant I need a way to make "color scaled relief maps" (or whatever they 
> are called in GIS lingo) from DEMs. The type that has a color gradient based 
> on the altitude.
> 
> It's pretty simple so I find it hard to believe no one has written an open 
> source utility to do it. It's just a matter of trying to find out what's 
> available.

Maybe this one helps

 http://grass.itc.it/gdp/html_grass5/html/shade.clr.sh.html

But it's only a script.

Markus